My apartment building caught fire once. Some drunk had been smoking in the cellars in winter.
Barely noticed it in the fourth floor, a bit of smell, that’s all.
The whole cellar floor burned. Fire department didn’t even get people from above the third floor to go out due to smoke inhalation.
It’s pretty much the same with all fires I can find in the news.
Finnish building regs are a bit different. For one you can’t get through apartment doors without powertools. They’re also good at isolating fire due two doors at the entrance, properly sealed.
So we don’t have two staircases.
We worry more about preventing the fire from spreading instead of what to do if gets uncontrollable. Philosophical difference, really, not saying one approach is better than the other.
My apartment building caught fire once. Some drunk had been smoking in the cellars in winter.
Barely noticed it in the fourth floor, a bit of smell, that’s all.
The whole cellar floor burned. Fire department didn’t even get people from above the third floor to go out due to smoke inhalation.
It’s pretty much the same with all fires I can find in the news.
Finnish building regs are a bit different. For one you can’t get through apartment doors without powertools. They’re also good at isolating fire due two doors at the entrance, properly sealed.
So we don’t have two staircases.
We worry more about preventing the fire from spreading instead of what to do if gets uncontrollable. Philosophical difference, really, not saying one approach is better than the other.